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Speaker 1 (00:00):
And with that the phone lines are open. Seven one
three nine nine nine one thousand. Seven one three nine
nine nine one thousand. Your conspiracy theory, your statement of glatitude,
of gratitude, maybe glatitude too, it's basically the same thing,
glad I I don't know why that couldn't be a
word seven one three nine nine nine one thousand. You can,
(00:21):
of course always email me through the website at Michael
Berryshow dot com and to get us started as we
always do, courtesy the greatest executive producer in all the land.
Chatta cony niners, you've got the cathedral any of that song,
courtesy the greatest executive producer in all the land, Chattaconi Nakanishi.
(00:42):
You'll we can read. Emergency teams in the Hill Country said.
Speaker 2 (00:47):
Even with flash flood warnings, there was a little time
to escape the rapid rise of the water.
Speaker 1 (00:52):
They described a wall of water rushing in.
Speaker 2 (00:54):
Within forty five minutes, the Guadalupe River increased to a
height of twenty six.
Speaker 1 (01:00):
You're walking through this mess hoping for a miracle. Get
in here, keep the faith. That's all we can do.
So that's all I got.
Speaker 2 (01:09):
Ed, can't missed it we're more than two dozen campers
were swept away.
Speaker 1 (01:12):
In the night. Something about children, as a parent, as
a grandparent, as an aunt, as an uncle, as a
human being. There's just something about innocent, precious children. He says.
They are phasing out their shoe removal policy at airport checkpoints.
Speaker 2 (01:28):
Will pre check passengers have been able to leave their
shoes on. Removing shoes has been a top complaint among
all passengers.
Speaker 1 (01:35):
They finally admit, you can take off your mask if
you want to. You can stop getting nineteen booster shots.
Oh and by the way, because we're feeling gracious, you
can stop taking off your shoes when you go through
the airport.
Speaker 2 (01:48):
US government is now saying financier Jeffrey Epstein never kept
a client list.
Speaker 1 (01:53):
We had heard about that, and contradicts claims from Attorney
General Pam Bondi, who months ago said such a document
it was quote sitting on my desk.
Speaker 2 (02:01):
And now they drop a Sunday night memo saying sorry,
there's no there there in any capacity whatsoever.
Speaker 1 (02:07):
Case closed. That's just not going to that's not going
to fly. You're now told there is no Epstein lists,
there's nothing. Nobody on the list, almost as if it
didn't happen. It really makes you wonder, then why is
Gillan Maxwell in prison? There is no list, there are
no clients. If there are no clients, there is no crime.
Six Secret Service agents are suspended for failures connected to
(02:29):
the attempted assassination of President Donald Trump last year. Deputy
Director Matt Quinn says, we aren't going to fire our
way out of this. Any organization, team, you name it,
where people are not fired is not an effective organization.
(02:52):
I cried tea you, why did dry confused? You cleared me?
I sold my soul, John Riders, the Michael Fairy Show.
Speaker 2 (03:14):
Many more firs, Tostic values a million dollar record sales
home now.
Speaker 1 (03:21):
And now every suburban neighborhood after the fourth of July?
Was that a gun show? Even worse? Fireworks? We're still
celebrating freedom, but week after the fourth of July, paunch
of redneck. See y'all got all my dogs upset? Oh
(03:47):
and here come my cats. Just can't even sleep. It's okay.
I'm gonna put you guys in your kennel so you
don't have to worry about these silly sounds of free
Oh didn't you just sniffing me to the phone lines.
(04:14):
There you go. Seven one three, nine, nine, nine one thousand,
seven one three, nine one thousand. Of course, you can
email with you the website Michael Berryshow dot com. While
you're there, sign up for our daily e blast. It's
better than ever. Kunda devotes a lot of time to it.
There are clips from the morning show. There's always a meme,
(04:35):
links to articles that we've talked about and more. You
can buy our show merch while you're there. Seven one three,
nine nine nine one thousand. We will start with Shannon. Yeah, Shannon,
you're on the Michael Berry Show.
Speaker 2 (04:50):
Go ahead, how are you? I'm good, well your show.
First of all, I like listening because it makes me.
We sink and this flood brought back some really good memory,
not good memories, but memories. When I was seven, we
were moving from South Dakota, or from Wyoming to South Dakota.
(05:14):
My dad was a MISSI launch officer and we moved frequently,
and we would always live in our Winnebago when we traveled,
so we moved to it. We were going to stay
at a campground called the Strawberry Patch in Rapid City.
But when my brother my younger brother, who was five,
went in to use the bathroom. They had a quarter
machine on the stalls, so every time you would have
(05:37):
to go to the bathroom, you'd have to pay a
quarter to get in, and had a really cool playground.
We tried to convince my mom to stay there, that
she wasn't the mess with her kids crawling under the
stall to try to bypass the quarters. So we went
to a koa campground which was on a hill. Well,
that night the Rapid City flood hit and had we
(05:58):
been in that other campground, it's got washed awake. Oh wow,
similar to this flood right here. So the Rapid City
flood happened in nineteen seventy two. I just turned seven,
and it wiped out probably thousands of people. I think
a couple hundred people were killed, just like this fled.
It reminds me exactly of this flood. It's almost identical.
Speaker 1 (06:25):
You said your father backr was your father in the
Air Force.
Speaker 2 (06:30):
Yes, Air Force. He was stationed at Ellsworth Air Force Base.
Speaker 1 (06:33):
Is that in mine? Not?
Speaker 2 (06:36):
Well, no, we lived in Rapid City, but he would
fly up to mine, not to be in the little chambers.
I guess.
Speaker 1 (06:45):
H interesting, My niece went to school in Rapid City
at the University of South Dakota School of Mines, and
she met her now husband there. He was was pH
d student at the time. Ended up graduating and doing
(07:06):
some teaching there and they live in Houston now. But
my wife went up to settle her in when she
moved into the school, and my wife said, Rapid City
is the most beautiful place in America. I had never
heard anyone talk about. It's like, you know, big sky
beauty of Montana, without being very expensive. She thought it
(07:29):
was just absolutely a glorious place.
Speaker 2 (07:33):
Well, we went back two years ago finally, and that
was the first time I had been back, and when
I was seven, I never realized how beautiful it was.
And I would agree it was breathtaking.
Speaker 1 (07:44):
What brought y'all? What brought y'all to Houston.
Speaker 2 (07:51):
I ended up marrying someone from the Coast Guard Academy,
and he was a coast and I was in the Navy,
and we met in Norfolk, Virginia. He was in New
York City and was getting orders and he said, I
told him I would go anywhere but California or Texas,
and his choices were Galveston at a base down there
(08:15):
or LA and it was right after the La riots,
so it was an easy choice to make and fell
in love with it and never left.
Speaker 1 (08:25):
So y'all came to Galveston.
Speaker 2 (08:28):
Yep, we were stationed. There was coast Guard housing right
there along the sea wall, and they put us right
on the right across from the beach.
Speaker 1 (08:37):
What was the housing?
Speaker 2 (08:41):
It's right there by where Guidos?
Speaker 1 (08:44):
Is it the old fort? Is it those those forts?
Speaker 2 (08:47):
Yes? Yes, yes, I.
Speaker 1 (08:49):
Forget what that's called. Somebody'll email me in a second
and tell me. But I've always thought, I mean, I'm
so has everybody else. It's not so brilliant idea I had,
but I thought that would be a I wish somebody
would un that it could be so glorious those those
structures and keep those structures in the distance apart that
they are in that that space is very valuable real estate.
But I've always thought fort what is that called? I
(09:13):
know they they last I saw, they had fallen. What's up?
Speaker 2 (09:18):
They took him after the flood they tore down. The
places where we lived were torn down after the hurricane Ike.
Speaker 1 (09:26):
Yeah, it they had fallen into disrepair and it was
quite unsightly, and I think they didn't want that on
such prized real estate in a resort town. People laugh
when I say that, But it is a resort town.
It's it's it qualifies, it's a tourist town, whatever, whatever
you want to call it. So do you still live there? No?
Speaker 2 (09:48):
I live in Willis now.
Speaker 1 (09:50):
Oh okay. And are you still married to the coasty?
Speaker 2 (09:55):
Yes, we're still married thirty five years?
Speaker 1 (09:57):
Oh wow? Okay? And what does he do now?
Speaker 2 (10:04):
He works for Hartford. He does insurance inspections on boats, boats, ships.
Speaker 1 (10:10):
And what do you do?
Speaker 2 (10:13):
Speech language pathologist?
Speaker 1 (10:15):
And how'd you get into that?
Speaker 2 (10:18):
Luck you want? I drove a forklift. I was a
storekeeper for the navy.
Speaker 1 (10:29):
Yes? Was that a civilian job? No? I was.
Speaker 2 (10:33):
I dropped out of school and I went by the
Navy recruiter and I didn't think it through because my
dad never lived on an airplane, so I didn't think
you'd live on a ship, and we'd never lived around
the coast. And I went to the recruiters and they
(10:57):
said it would be eight months to get into the Navy.
And I didn't want to go back to school. So
I was coming out and the neighbor recruiters were there
and they said we could have you in by Friday,
and I was in by Friday.
Speaker 1 (11:11):
Interesting, and how long did you serve?
Speaker 2 (11:14):
Just one? Just one term? Four years?
Speaker 1 (11:17):
You know how I would know you're not from Houston
because you said school as a two Yeah, you said
school as a two syllable word. I used to do
aerobics till I dropped. Then I found Michael very Jo.
I recommend it. And it's about seven years ago. Up
there by the way, phone lines were open seven one,
three nine nine nine one thousand, seven and three nine
(11:37):
nine one thousands, about seven years ago, because I think
Michael was twelve read Ryan ran the Astros back then,
and reach a good body of mine, and he said,
won't you bring the boys down or take them down
on the field before the game. And so we did
and they did. And you know, there there is a
(11:59):
love that little boys have for professional baseball players that
I had, that they have, and I will tell you, uh,
you never truly grow grow out of it. I got
a message from Phil Garner two days ago and I
just I light up. I'm still you know, seven years old.
(12:23):
Old scrap Iron texted me and wanted me to know
something and I'm just giddy, and I'm unashamed of it.
You know, you got to hold on to some things
that still give you that kind of thrill. You see
the guys that never smile and are never happy, I
think they they lost touch with needing to have things.
It's okay. It's okay to still half worship the people
(12:43):
that were your your heroes when you were a kid.
There's no harm in it anyway. So we go down
and go on the field. They're they're taking BP, which
is which is an experience in and of itself to
be down on the field and hear the crack of
the bat. It's just different than being up in the
stands and we're walking around and and it's it's very casual,
you know, professional sports on television is it's very orderly
(13:08):
and formal and the pageantry of it all. But before
a game, you know, it's just some guys walking around.
You know. One of theoms got his uh, one of
them's got his his uniform on, the other one just
has a T shirt on. And anyway, so one of
the people we met was Javier Bracamonte, and he is
(13:29):
the Astros bullpen pitcher. Well yesterday without warning. He was
super nice and so I'm not gonna say we're friends.
We met him and I remember leaving the experience thinking, man,
he was all Tuvey was very nice, took all the
pictures we wanted, Bigio, took us in the back, showed
(13:51):
us some videos and how they assess a hitter and
all this sort of stuff. But Racamonte was the one
who kind of cut through as man. He's like an
ambassador for the team. Well then Mac several times has
taken that suite in center field where your ground level. Look,
(14:13):
have you ever come with us to that, Jim No, yeah, yeah,
And you're looking through the chain link fence at the
center fielder, which is a whole different way to watch
a game. But the cool thing about that is, you know,
now nobody pitches a full game, maybe from Bear, but
you're watching them start to warm up, which they start
pretty early, and it's interesting to see the different you know,
(14:36):
how much stretching a guy does and at what speed
he starts throwing his first few pitches. Bracamonte is the
bullpen pitcher, a bullpen catcher, and two days ago he
was honored by the team for twenty five years, he
has never missed a game. Now you think about that,
(14:57):
that's one hundred and sixty two regular season games, they
go to the playoffs, and you got spring training. I
mean that's a lot of days to I mean in
any field, Ramon doesn't make a month without missing a day.
Rocamonte hasn't missed a day in twenty five years. So
he was honored on Wednesday yesterday without warning me, without
(15:21):
telling me Jonathan Kim, who runs Gringos. One of the
reasons Russell Lebarro can travel and relax a little and
give speeches and write books is because he doesn't have
to be in the kitchen all day every day. He
doesn't have to be worried, you know, whether one of
the assistant managers is running late. He can he can
look at the global picture. And Jonathan Kim does all
(15:44):
the seven days a week he's showing up at stores,
works his tail off. Anyway. He's also become one of
my very good friends over the years. Yesterday he sends
me pictures. He brought Javier Bracamonte to meet my dad.
He said, you know Michael Berry's he has the biggest
Astros fan and all that. So they hung out with him,
and I'm waiting to hear from my dad, to hear
(16:08):
his perspective. I don't want to bring it up, you know,
because y'allso worry is his memory going. And his memory
is pretty good. It's not what it once was, but
it's pretty good anyway. So he was very curious how
you could be with the team for twenty five years,
and we were going through what he does and all that.
(16:29):
What's the amazing thing about that is it was his
day off. He still had to go in for practice,
and then he had a couple he lives in friends with.
He still had to go in. Some guys wanted to throw,
and so you know, that's his job. So he still
goes in and catches them, runs some errands in town
because he's come in from friends with and he had
(16:51):
told Jonathan, you know, that would be a good day
for us to go by there. And he goes by
and spends an hour and a half with my dad
hanging out. I mean my dad. My dad was on
cloud nine last night talking baseball all all that time,
just his experiences and everything you do. There's no reason
(17:16):
to have celebrity unless you're gonna share it with people
who are gonna enjoy it. I realize he's not al
Tuve in terms of name I D but he's got
some pretty amazing experiences. He's caught every picture on the
astros rotation for twenty five years. You know, one of
(17:37):
the things that I have noticed with people that are
very successful is they do not get caught in the humdrum.
They break out of the hum drum and find excuses
to do things that make memories because five and ten
years later, that's what you're gonna remember. That's what you're
(17:58):
gonna remember of your life, and that's what other people
are going to remember about you. Did you take off
an afternoon and go hang out with somebody's dad and
present him with cool stuff that he just wants to
show everybody when they come in the room, you know,
because he's got buddies that are astros. What is the
(18:19):
point of having this incredible life experience if you hide
that light under a bushel, if you don't share that
with people and just rock their world. Yeah, So anyway,
that's that's my story, Tommy writes Zara. I just want
to let you know that the Sons of the American
Legion sal Post two forty two in Burton, Texas recently
(18:40):
made a donation to Camp Hope for twenty five hundred dollars. No,
it's not a big donation, but we're not a big organization.
These are moneies we raised from our drive through meal
fundraisers and our yearly car show. We would like to
see other American Legion organizations in the South Texas area
take a look at their bank statements and see if
they could find some funds for Camp Hope. No matter
(19:01):
what size the donation. Thanks for everything you do for
our veterans. Tommy Wimberley. Every single day, without exception, I
get at least one email from somebody or the other
that was just just sharing that they did this or
that for Camp Hope. Maybe they go over and volunteer,
(19:24):
maybe they cook. Restaurants will donate dinner. You know, you
got between eighty and one hundred grown men strapping young bucks.
You put down some groceries, so the donation of dinner
is a big, big deal to the overall. There's a
group called the Justice League or something. It's a bunch
of lawyers. They did a pick a ball tournament a
(19:45):
few days ago raised fifty five thousand dollars all for
a wonderful cause. Folks are wonderful. I appreciate you, and
the veterans appreciate Email from Josh Reads. My family and
I attended the annual Independence Day celebration that the Cynthia
Woods Mitchell Pavilion in the Woodlands on July third. It
(20:10):
was a nice celebration, and it was a nice feeling
of knowing I'm surrounded by like minded people who love
our country. As I looked around, I saw many people
who were of other nationalities, which made me happy. I
was curious, however, when I looked around and didn't see
one black person, I thought that was interesting. You know,
(20:36):
it's worthy of a study to observe how much the
American mind has been warped. Criticizing Josh, I'm talking generally
in society. It is worthy of a study to see,
(21:00):
to observe, to witness how much the American mind has
been warped, and people don't even realize it. It's nineteen
thirty five level Goebbels Germany propaganda film in a clockwork
(21:21):
orange setting where you can't get away from it. Most
Americans live in such intense, deep, debilitating fear of being
called a racist or of upsetting people who are upset
(21:47):
all the time. I'm just amazed by it. They're just
they're so scared. There are people that will not come
on our show because they tell me that they're worried
that they'll be attacked. Attacked. Why somebody gonna bash you
in the head with a pipe? Are you gonna be stabbed?
Speaker 2 (22:10):
No?
Speaker 1 (22:10):
You know what I mean that they'll they'll go on
social media. That okay, and then what will happen? Will
will you lose your home? Will your wife leave you?
Will your kids never talk to you again? What will happen?
I'll get ten emails before the end of the hours.
Is you know what's big of you to talk and everything?
(22:32):
But for the rest of us, we lose our job.
So you're saying it's true, It's only true because you
allow it to be true. It is tragic to me,
tragic to see the healthiest, wealthiest people in the history
of mankind less happy, less fulfilled, less rewarded then many
(23:02):
people throughout history. I often think about the fact that
if you if you've got as absess in your mouth,
you can go to a dentist now and get knocked
out and they'll take it out for you, or broken
bone of anesthesia. If you're hungry, you know the problem
(23:23):
in this country. Have too much food. We can we
can eat any product from around the world two minutes away.
It's incredible. And yet we've allowed ourselves this mental war.
And this guy's talking about going somewhere where he felt
happy for once you felt you could be proud. These
(23:45):
are natural emotions. To be proud of who and what
you are, even if you're white. To be proud of
who and what you are, unashamed, and don't don't torment
yourself by feeling like there's something wrong with that. Surround
yourself with people you love who love you. When you're
in a bad environment, get out, don't be live, work,
(24:11):
interact worship in places that you don't love, the people
who love you around you.
And with that the phone lines are open. Seven one
three nine nine nine one thousand. Seven one three nine
nine nine one thousand. Your conspiracy theory, your statement of glatitude,
of gratitude, maybe glatitude too, it's basically the same thing,
glad I I don't know why that couldn't be a
word seven one three nine nine nine one thousand. You can,
(00:21):
of course always email me through the website at Michael
Berryshow dot com and to get us started as we
always do, courtesy the greatest executive producer in all the land.
Chatta cony niners, you've got the cathedral any of that song,
courtesy the greatest executive producer in all the land, Chattaconi Nakanishi.
(00:42):
You'll we can read. Emergency teams in the Hill Country said.
Speaker 2 (00:47):
Even with flash flood warnings, there was a little time
to escape the rapid rise of the water.
Speaker 1 (00:52):
They described a wall of water rushing in.
Speaker 2 (00:54):
Within forty five minutes, the Guadalupe River increased to a
height of twenty six.
Speaker 1 (01:00):
You're walking through this mess hoping for a miracle. Get
in here, keep the faith. That's all we can do.
So that's all I got.
Speaker 2 (01:09):
Ed, can't missed it we're more than two dozen campers
were swept away.
Speaker 1 (01:12):
In the night. Something about children, as a parent, as
a grandparent, as an aunt, as an uncle, as a
human being. There's just something about innocent, precious children. He says.
They are phasing out their shoe removal policy at airport checkpoints.
Speaker 2 (01:28):
Will pre check passengers have been able to leave their
shoes on. Removing shoes has been a top complaint among
all passengers.
Speaker 1 (01:35):
They finally admit, you can take off your mask if
you want to. You can stop getting nineteen booster shots.
Oh and by the way, because we're feeling gracious, you
can stop taking off your shoes when you go through
the airport.
Speaker 2 (01:48):
US government is now saying financier Jeffrey Epstein never kept
a client list.
Speaker 1 (01:53):
We had heard about that, and contradicts claims from Attorney
General Pam Bondi, who months ago said such a document
it was quote sitting on my desk.
Speaker 2 (02:01):
And now they drop a Sunday night memo saying sorry,
there's no there there in any capacity whatsoever.
Speaker 1 (02:07):
Case closed. That's just not going to that's not going
to fly. You're now told there is no Epstein lists,
there's nothing. Nobody on the list, almost as if it
didn't happen. It really makes you wonder, then why is
Gillan Maxwell in prison? There is no list, there are
no clients. If there are no clients, there is no crime.
Six Secret Service agents are suspended for failures connected to
(02:29):
the attempted assassination of President Donald Trump last year. Deputy
Director Matt Quinn says, we aren't going to fire our
way out of this. Any organization, team, you name it,
where people are not fired is not an effective organization.
(02:52):
I cried tea you, why did dry confused? You cleared me?
I sold my soul, John Riders, the Michael Fairy Show.
Speaker 2 (03:14):
Many more firs, Tostic values a million dollar record sales
home now.
Speaker 1 (03:21):
And now every suburban neighborhood after the fourth of July?
Was that a gun show? Even worse? Fireworks? We're still
celebrating freedom, but week after the fourth of July, paunch
of redneck. See y'all got all my dogs upset? Oh
(03:47):
and here come my cats. Just can't even sleep. It's okay.
I'm gonna put you guys in your kennel so you
don't have to worry about these silly sounds of free
Oh didn't you just sniffing me to the phone lines.
(04:14):
There you go. Seven one three, nine, nine, nine one thousand,
seven one three, nine one thousand. Of course, you can
email with you the website Michael Berryshow dot com. While
you're there, sign up for our daily e blast. It's
better than ever. Kunda devotes a lot of time to it.
There are clips from the morning show. There's always a meme,
(04:35):
links to articles that we've talked about and more. You
can buy our show merch while you're there. Seven one three,
nine nine nine one thousand. We will start with Shannon. Yeah, Shannon,
you're on the Michael Berry Show.
Speaker 2 (04:50):
Go ahead, how are you? I'm good, well your show.
First of all, I like listening because it makes me.
We sink and this flood brought back some really good memory,
not good memories, but memories. When I was seven, we
were moving from South Dakota, or from Wyoming to South Dakota.
(05:14):
My dad was a MISSI launch officer and we moved frequently,
and we would always live in our Winnebago when we traveled,
so we moved to it. We were going to stay
at a campground called the Strawberry Patch in Rapid City.
But when my brother my younger brother, who was five,
went in to use the bathroom. They had a quarter
machine on the stalls, so every time you would have
(05:37):
to go to the bathroom, you'd have to pay a
quarter to get in, and had a really cool playground.
We tried to convince my mom to stay there, that
she wasn't the mess with her kids crawling under the
stall to try to bypass the quarters. So we went
to a koa campground which was on a hill. Well,
that night the Rapid City flood hit and had we
(05:58):
been in that other campground, it's got washed awake. Oh wow,
similar to this flood right here. So the Rapid City
flood happened in nineteen seventy two. I just turned seven,
and it wiped out probably thousands of people. I think
a couple hundred people were killed, just like this fled.
It reminds me exactly of this flood. It's almost identical.
Speaker 1 (06:25):
You said your father backr was your father in the
Air Force.
Speaker 2 (06:30):
Yes, Air Force. He was stationed at Ellsworth Air Force Base.
Speaker 1 (06:33):
Is that in mine? Not?
Speaker 2 (06:36):
Well, no, we lived in Rapid City, but he would
fly up to mine, not to be in the little chambers.
I guess.
Speaker 1 (06:45):
H interesting, My niece went to school in Rapid City
at the University of South Dakota School of Mines, and
she met her now husband there. He was was pH
d student at the time. Ended up graduating and doing
(07:06):
some teaching there and they live in Houston now. But
my wife went up to settle her in when she
moved into the school, and my wife said, Rapid City
is the most beautiful place in America. I had never
heard anyone talk about. It's like, you know, big sky
beauty of Montana, without being very expensive. She thought it
(07:29):
was just absolutely a glorious place.
Speaker 2 (07:33):
Well, we went back two years ago finally, and that
was the first time I had been back, and when
I was seven, I never realized how beautiful it was.
And I would agree it was breathtaking.
Speaker 1 (07:44):
What brought y'all? What brought y'all to Houston.
Speaker 2 (07:51):
I ended up marrying someone from the Coast Guard Academy,
and he was a coast and I was in the Navy,
and we met in Norfolk, Virginia. He was in New
York City and was getting orders and he said, I
told him I would go anywhere but California or Texas,
and his choices were Galveston at a base down there
(08:15):
or LA and it was right after the La riots,
so it was an easy choice to make and fell
in love with it and never left.
Speaker 1 (08:25):
So y'all came to Galveston.
Speaker 2 (08:28):
Yep, we were stationed. There was coast Guard housing right
there along the sea wall, and they put us right
on the right across from the beach.
Speaker 1 (08:37):
What was the housing?
Speaker 2 (08:41):
It's right there by where Guidos?
Speaker 1 (08:44):
Is it the old fort? Is it those those forts?
Speaker 2 (08:47):
Yes? Yes, yes, I.
Speaker 1 (08:49):
Forget what that's called. Somebody'll email me in a second
and tell me. But I've always thought, I mean, I'm
so has everybody else. It's not so brilliant idea I had,
but I thought that would be a I wish somebody
would un that it could be so glorious those those
structures and keep those structures in the distance apart that
they are in that that space is very valuable real estate.
But I've always thought fort what is that called? I
(09:13):
know they they last I saw, they had fallen. What's up?
Speaker 2 (09:18):
They took him after the flood they tore down. The
places where we lived were torn down after the hurricane Ike.
Speaker 1 (09:26):
Yeah, it they had fallen into disrepair and it was
quite unsightly, and I think they didn't want that on
such prized real estate in a resort town. People laugh
when I say that, But it is a resort town.
It's it's it qualifies, it's a tourist town, whatever, whatever
you want to call it. So do you still live there? No?
Speaker 2 (09:48):
I live in Willis now.
Speaker 1 (09:50):
Oh okay. And are you still married to the coasty?
Speaker 2 (09:55):
Yes, we're still married thirty five years?
Speaker 1 (09:57):
Oh wow? Okay? And what does he do now?
Speaker 2 (10:04):
He works for Hartford. He does insurance inspections on boats, boats, ships.
Speaker 1 (10:10):
And what do you do?
Speaker 2 (10:13):
Speech language pathologist?
Speaker 1 (10:15):
And how'd you get into that?
Speaker 2 (10:18):
Luck you want? I drove a forklift. I was a
storekeeper for the navy.
Speaker 1 (10:29):
Yes? Was that a civilian job? No? I was.
Speaker 2 (10:33):
I dropped out of school and I went by the
Navy recruiter and I didn't think it through because my
dad never lived on an airplane, so I didn't think
you'd live on a ship, and we'd never lived around
the coast. And I went to the recruiters and they
(10:57):
said it would be eight months to get into the Navy.
And I didn't want to go back to school. So
I was coming out and the neighbor recruiters were there
and they said we could have you in by Friday,
and I was in by Friday.
Speaker 1 (11:11):
Interesting, and how long did you serve?
Speaker 2 (11:14):
Just one? Just one term? Four years?
Speaker 1 (11:17):
You know how I would know you're not from Houston
because you said school as a two Yeah, you said
school as a two syllable word. I used to do
aerobics till I dropped. Then I found Michael very Jo.
I recommend it. And it's about seven years ago. Up
there by the way, phone lines were open seven one,
three nine nine nine one thousand, seven and three nine
(11:37):
nine one thousands, about seven years ago, because I think
Michael was twelve read Ryan ran the Astros back then,
and reach a good body of mine, and he said,
won't you bring the boys down or take them down
on the field before the game. And so we did
and they did. And you know, there there is a
(11:59):
love that little boys have for professional baseball players that
I had, that they have, and I will tell you, uh,
you never truly grow grow out of it. I got
a message from Phil Garner two days ago and I
just I light up. I'm still you know, seven years old.
(12:23):
Old scrap Iron texted me and wanted me to know
something and I'm just giddy, and I'm unashamed of it.
You know, you got to hold on to some things
that still give you that kind of thrill. You see
the guys that never smile and are never happy, I
think they they lost touch with needing to have things.
It's okay. It's okay to still half worship the people
(12:43):
that were your your heroes when you were a kid.
There's no harm in it anyway. So we go down
and go on the field. They're they're taking BP, which
is which is an experience in and of itself to
be down on the field and hear the crack of
the bat. It's just different than being up in the
stands and we're walking around and and it's it's very casual,
you know, professional sports on television is it's very orderly
(13:08):
and formal and the pageantry of it all. But before
a game, you know, it's just some guys walking around.
You know. One of theoms got his uh, one of
them's got his his uniform on, the other one just
has a T shirt on. And anyway, so one of
the people we met was Javier Bracamonte, and he is
(13:29):
the Astros bullpen pitcher. Well yesterday without warning. He was
super nice and so I'm not gonna say we're friends.
We met him and I remember leaving the experience thinking, man,
he was all Tuvey was very nice, took all the
pictures we wanted, Bigio, took us in the back, showed
(13:51):
us some videos and how they assess a hitter and
all this sort of stuff. But Racamonte was the one
who kind of cut through as man. He's like an
ambassador for the team. Well then Mac several times has
taken that suite in center field where your ground level. Look,
(14:13):
have you ever come with us to that, Jim No, yeah, yeah,
And you're looking through the chain link fence at the
center fielder, which is a whole different way to watch
a game. But the cool thing about that is, you know,
now nobody pitches a full game, maybe from Bear, but
you're watching them start to warm up, which they start
pretty early, and it's interesting to see the different you know,
(14:36):
how much stretching a guy does and at what speed
he starts throwing his first few pitches. Bracamonte is the
bullpen pitcher, a bullpen catcher, and two days ago he
was honored by the team for twenty five years, he
has never missed a game. Now you think about that,
(14:57):
that's one hundred and sixty two regular season games, they
go to the playoffs, and you got spring training. I
mean that's a lot of days to I mean in
any field, Ramon doesn't make a month without missing a day.
Rocamonte hasn't missed a day in twenty five years. So
he was honored on Wednesday yesterday without warning me, without
(15:21):
telling me Jonathan Kim, who runs Gringos. One of the
reasons Russell Lebarro can travel and relax a little and
give speeches and write books is because he doesn't have
to be in the kitchen all day every day. He
doesn't have to be worried, you know, whether one of
the assistant managers is running late. He can he can
look at the global picture. And Jonathan Kim does all
(15:44):
the seven days a week he's showing up at stores,
works his tail off. Anyway. He's also become one of
my very good friends over the years. Yesterday he sends
me pictures. He brought Javier Bracamonte to meet my dad.
He said, you know Michael Berry's he has the biggest
Astros fan and all that. So they hung out with him,
and I'm waiting to hear from my dad, to hear
(16:08):
his perspective. I don't want to bring it up, you know,
because y'allso worry is his memory going. And his memory
is pretty good. It's not what it once was, but
it's pretty good anyway. So he was very curious how
you could be with the team for twenty five years,
and we were going through what he does and all that.
(16:29):
What's the amazing thing about that is it was his
day off. He still had to go in for practice,
and then he had a couple he lives in friends with.
He still had to go in. Some guys wanted to throw,
and so you know, that's his job. So he still
goes in and catches them, runs some errands in town
because he's come in from friends with and he had
(16:51):
told Jonathan, you know, that would be a good day
for us to go by there. And he goes by
and spends an hour and a half with my dad
hanging out. I mean my dad. My dad was on
cloud nine last night talking baseball all all that time,
just his experiences and everything you do. There's no reason
(17:16):
to have celebrity unless you're gonna share it with people
who are gonna enjoy it. I realize he's not al
Tuve in terms of name I D but he's got
some pretty amazing experiences. He's caught every picture on the
astros rotation for twenty five years. You know, one of
(17:37):
the things that I have noticed with people that are
very successful is they do not get caught in the humdrum.
They break out of the hum drum and find excuses
to do things that make memories because five and ten
years later, that's what you're gonna remember. That's what you're
(17:58):
gonna remember of your life, and that's what other people
are going to remember about you. Did you take off
an afternoon and go hang out with somebody's dad and
present him with cool stuff that he just wants to
show everybody when they come in the room, you know,
because he's got buddies that are astros. What is the
(18:19):
point of having this incredible life experience if you hide
that light under a bushel, if you don't share that
with people and just rock their world. Yeah, So anyway,
that's that's my story, Tommy writes Zara. I just want
to let you know that the Sons of the American
Legion sal Post two forty two in Burton, Texas recently
(18:40):
made a donation to Camp Hope for twenty five hundred dollars. No,
it's not a big donation, but we're not a big organization.
These are moneies we raised from our drive through meal
fundraisers and our yearly car show. We would like to
see other American Legion organizations in the South Texas area
take a look at their bank statements and see if
they could find some funds for Camp Hope. No matter
(19:01):
what size the donation. Thanks for everything you do for
our veterans. Tommy Wimberley. Every single day, without exception, I
get at least one email from somebody or the other
that was just just sharing that they did this or
that for Camp Hope. Maybe they go over and volunteer,
(19:24):
maybe they cook. Restaurants will donate dinner. You know, you
got between eighty and one hundred grown men strapping young bucks.
You put down some groceries, so the donation of dinner
is a big, big deal to the overall. There's a
group called the Justice League or something. It's a bunch
of lawyers. They did a pick a ball tournament a
(19:45):
few days ago raised fifty five thousand dollars all for
a wonderful cause. Folks are wonderful. I appreciate you, and
the veterans appreciate Email from Josh Reads. My family and
I attended the annual Independence Day celebration that the Cynthia
Woods Mitchell Pavilion in the Woodlands on July third. It
(20:10):
was a nice celebration, and it was a nice feeling
of knowing I'm surrounded by like minded people who love
our country. As I looked around, I saw many people
who were of other nationalities, which made me happy. I
was curious, however, when I looked around and didn't see
one black person, I thought that was interesting. You know,
(20:36):
it's worthy of a study to observe how much the
American mind has been warped. Criticizing Josh, I'm talking generally
in society. It is worthy of a study to see,
(21:00):
to observe, to witness how much the American mind has
been warped, and people don't even realize it. It's nineteen
thirty five level Goebbels Germany propaganda film in a clockwork
(21:21):
orange setting where you can't get away from it. Most
Americans live in such intense, deep, debilitating fear of being
called a racist or of upsetting people who are upset
(21:47):
all the time. I'm just amazed by it. They're just
they're so scared. There are people that will not come
on our show because they tell me that they're worried
that they'll be attacked. Attacked. Why somebody gonna bash you
in the head with a pipe? Are you gonna be stabbed?
Speaker 2 (22:10):
No?
Speaker 1 (22:10):
You know what I mean that they'll they'll go on
social media. That okay, and then what will happen? Will
will you lose your home? Will your wife leave you?
Will your kids never talk to you again? What will happen?
I'll get ten emails before the end of the hours.
Is you know what's big of you to talk and everything?
(22:32):
But for the rest of us, we lose our job.
So you're saying it's true, It's only true because you
allow it to be true. It is tragic to me,
tragic to see the healthiest, wealthiest people in the history
of mankind less happy, less fulfilled, less rewarded then many
(23:02):
people throughout history. I often think about the fact that
if you if you've got as absess in your mouth,
you can go to a dentist now and get knocked
out and they'll take it out for you, or broken
bone of anesthesia. If you're hungry, you know the problem
(23:23):
in this country. Have too much food. We can we
can eat any product from around the world two minutes away.
It's incredible. And yet we've allowed ourselves this mental war.
And this guy's talking about going somewhere where he felt
happy for once you felt you could be proud. These
(23:45):
are natural emotions. To be proud of who and what
you are, even if you're white. To be proud of
who and what you are, unashamed, and don't don't torment
yourself by feeling like there's something wrong with that. Surround
yourself with people you love who love you. When you're
in a bad environment, get out, don't be live, work,
(24:11):
interact worship in places that you don't love, the people
who love you around you.
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